Board 8 > 2024 Premier League (Football General) Topic II

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Weirdly enough, now I think I need Aston Villa to lose their games so that Sp*rs have something to play for when City come to town.

It is West Ham who are inevitable.

We will lose to Luton so they stay up, and then the next week we will lose to City so they win the league.

This feels big if it happens

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cpegd3dy8j7o

Massive, massive game of football today.

Coventry vs Ipswich is a big one

Agreed.

Ipswitch if they hold on here, only need a point at home against already relegated Huddersfield in order to secure automatic promotion.

oh also that Vinicius Jr. guy is pretty fuckin good

Bellingham has been hyped more (and mostly for good reason but of course helped by being English) and is perhaps less controversial, but I firmly believe Vinicius should be the biggest Ballon D'or contender in particular if Madrid wins Champions League which they're favorites to do.

Yeah it's between Mbappe and Vinicius with Kane having a shout, depending on who wins the CL.

Bellingham definitely has a shot if Real wins CL, England wins Euros and Brazil doesn't win Copa America, but yeah. Mbappe and Kane are too profilic, a Dortmund player wouldn't win if they pull off the miracle probably. Euros could decide it if between Mbappe and Kane.

I wouldn't be against Vinicius getting it regardless of how everything goes though.

England are absolutely not winning the Euros with Southgate unfortunately.

I have France as favorites, but not really because of Southgate in particular.

They were a penalty shootout from it last time after all!

Also Toni Kroos winning it would also make me happy, though I doubt it. What a phenomenal season he has had.

It was supposed to be Saka with the PL/CL double and the Euros :( :( :(

Watch Rice getting it if that had happened lol.

lmao that award would never EVER beat the racismo allegations if that happened

oh my days the amount of chances Dortmund have missed to kill this tie.

PSG should have been buried. Somehow escaped alive.

It's a weak semifinal, neither team is that great and has had a bunch of luck along the way. Hopefully Dortmund can pull it off.

The victory decided for good that Italy and Germany will have five teams in the UCL next year.

ctesjbuvf posted...

It's a weak semifinal, neither team is that great and has had a bunch of luck along the way. Hopefully Dortmund can pull it off.

The victory decided for good that Italy and Germany will have five teams in the UCL next year.

How was that decided? More points in the table/per match or what? Why not 5 La Liga teams? Or 5 EPL teams?

Most combined uefa coefficient in European competitions this year.

EPL were closing in on them after a rough start of both United and Newcastle exiting completely but then all teams but Aston Villa didn't make the semis.

La Liga did good in Champions League but awful in the other competitions.

ctesjbuvf posted...

Most combined uefa coefficient in European competitions this year.

Ohh that's pretty cool. Would be interesting to see the new format.

Tottenham get battered

EVERYWHERE THEY GO

Tottenham get battered

EVERYHWERE THEY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, EVERYWHERE THEY GOOOOOOO

Aston Villa likely making Champions League while Birmingham City (their rivals) are officially relegated to League 1. Truly a great season for Aston Villa fans.

Ipswich gone up as well. Not sure they have enough about them to stay up again (depends on other teams and their summer) but reckon they might surprise a few people. They won't embarrass themselves at the very least.

Arsenal are good. Genuinely think they might win every remaining game. Just need City to slip up once.

Easy win for City today. Haaland was back on form; I know 2 of those goals were penalties but still.

Goal differential still favors Arsenal. I have a hard time seeing City making up that 6 goal advantage, so they really need to win all 3 of their remaining games.

City:
5/11 (Saturday) 7:30am - @ Fulham
5/14 (Tuesday) 3:00pm - @ Tottenham
5/19 (Sunday) 11:00am - West Ham

Arsenal:
5/12 (Sunday) 11:30am - @ Man United
5/19 (Sunday) 11:00am - Everton

City get the first game of next weekend, and certainly have the easier run in of the two away games. City then have their make-up game midweek, with a tough match with a Tottenham team that will be fighting hard to retain their European position. And then the final week games that you'd expect both to win handily.

To a certain extent, this all comes down to whether Spurs can manage to not lose at home to the defending champs.

I hate to say it but I think the only way we win the league is if the officiating finally for the first time in like five years does something really egregious against City.

Shocking display from United here. We don't deserve Europe. Don't deserve anything but a bottom half finish this year. I don't care how big injury list was, every single other team in the league at least looks like they give a fuck about playing for the club. All these man need to go. NOW.

I feel like United has one or two games like this every year that are completely inexplicable.

No, this can be easily explained.

They have no LBs to play since February, they have only one CB in Evans who was rushed back, Casemiro is forced to play CB instead of DM due to a lack of anyone better, the GK is more easily exposed because of a much worse defense, and the team's best player and captain (Bruno) is out and replaced with someone who has barely played all season. We're also forced to play Eriksen who is no longer good enough to play the whole 90 for a club the size of United. Oh, and there is pretty much no one to substitute in other than youngsters or failed loanees.

Just wait until they play Arsenal and Newcastle in the next matchweek.

United are so weird. I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow took points from Arsenal like they somehow managed to do multiple times with Liverpool.

United are in far worse shape than they were against Liverpool right now. They need at least 3 or 4 players back and to not lose anymore for Arsenal.

I suspect we won't see more than 2 and this squad has already shown multiple times in the past once there's nothing to play for in the league anymore, majority of them stop trying or suddenly aren't available for the last few games.

I could easily see Arsenal winning 6-0 or something.

Two years ago Casemiro was putting on a display of unreal dominance in a UCL final (vs. Liverpool), and now he's cratered. Time really isn't kind to DMs.

Only able to half pay attention but what a game between PSG and Dortmund.

PSG absolutely getting killed by the woodwork!

PSG's extreme luck this campaign sure ran out.

Extreme luck that included the most controversial penalty ever in the last second against Newcastle, drawing Sociedad as runners up and Barcalona getting themselves a red card while being a draw that should have dominated regardless.

Go Dortmund, win the whole darn thing, no one could hate that!

I'm sure Yanited will get up for it this weekend, but if not I would REALLY like us to pay them back for the 8-2.

Barring that, three points and job done will be well enough.

I've never seen a team hit the woodwork like that with PSG yesterday. The ball just did not want to go in. Dortmund were giving them chance after chance.

Whoever gets through tonight will be a heavy favorite at Wembley IMO

I think I read that PSG's XG was something like 5.4 and yet 0 goals. Absolutely crazy.

Seanchan posted...

I think I read that PSG's XG was something like 5.4 and yet 0 goals. Absolutely crazy.

3.25 on FotMob. Crazy

This match has been really good so far.

They are having two right backs on Vinicius currently, that's how good he is.

Bayern really did fall apart at the end, there.

Real Madrid in Champions League

Take a f***ing bow.

Real Madrid are just built different on these nights, man.

I don't know if I could've physically handled seeing Arsenal go out like that. They were right there and their most dependable player for over a decade drops an easy shot right in front of him for Joselu. WOW.

And from that moment and with Tuchel's catastrophic subs, you knew there would only be one winner.

You can take the man out of spurs, but you can't take the spurs out of the man

I love memeing on ol 'Arry as much as the next guy but

it's really not his fault Tuchel surrendered the match with those cowardly subs and they bottled it with him off the pitch. I just don't understand.

Three minutes or so before Real equalized, they had a 3 on 1 break that Thomas Muller made the wrong pass on, and he scuffed that pass, otherwise they'd have had a great chance to make it 2-0. I knew right then that Real were gonna at least get the equalizer.